Ch. 20 Flashcards
Woodrow Wilson’s peace plan after World War I
Fourteen Points
post-World War I international organization that sought to guarantee international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security
League of Nations
Make ready troops
Mobilize
Payments for war damages
Reparations
Germany’s plan for a two-front war
Schlieffen Plan
A situation in which both sides are at a standstill
Stalemate
war that affects those in the battlefield and those
at home
Total War
treaty between Russia and Germany after the Russian Revolution; pulled Russia out of World War I
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
treaty between Germany and the Allied Powers of World War I; included the war guilt clause, which demanded that Germany pay reparations
Treaty of Versailles
unterseeboot; German submarine
U-Boat
clause in the Tr eaty of Versailles that placed the blame for World War I on the Germans clause
War Guilt Clause
long, slender airships similar to modern blimps
Zeppelins
war in which each side tried to gradually wear the other down
Attrition